{"id":10785,"date":"2026-01-14T09:29:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/lits\/digital-scholarship\/moodle\/modify-quiz-options-by-groups\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T09:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:35:08","slug":"modify-quiz-options-by-groups","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/lits\/digital-scholarship\/moodle\/modify-quiz-options-by-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Modify Quiz Options by Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have created a quiz in a Moodle course that contains groups, you can modify the quiz options so that it can be completed at different times by the different groups. This would be helpful in a combined Moodle course that hosts multiple sections of students. If a quiz must be completed at different times by different sections, make sure the groups are set by section, and then time constraints can be applied for these groups so that for any given student, the quiz will open and close relative to their section time.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first step to doing this is to click on the quiz when editing is turned off.<br \/>\nAfter you have entered the page for the quiz, click &#8220;more&#8221; on the horizontal navigation menu and select &#8220;overrides&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/quiz_group.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1981 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/quiz_group.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"722\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This will bring you to a new screen where you will select &#8220;Group overrides.&#8221; from the add-drop menu and then &#8221;<br \/>\nadd group override&#8221;. 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